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Frustrated with black-box computation? Constrained by the size of your experimentation cluster? Need to control the conditions of your application? Let BonFIRE help!
Following two successful Open Calls that have given academic
researchers, developers and SMEs access to the Cloud infrastructures in
BonFIRE, we launched the Open Access initiative to give more people the opportunity to get involved and test innovative ideas for free!

BonFIRE allows users to evaluate the effects of converged service and
network infrastructures; assess the socio-economic impact of new Cloud
services; and to combine Cloud computing and data storage with novel
networking scenarios. Essentially, BonFIRE enables developers to
research new, faster, cheaper or more flexible ways of running
applications.

Previous Experiments

The Open Access initiative has already been hugely successful, supporting over 20 organisations in running novel experiments on BonFIRE to test software prototypes and validating multi-Cloud application scenarios! For example, see the video below for the TurboCloud experiment, which was conducted by two SMEs, RedZink and Cloudium Systems, utilising the controlled networking features in BonFIRE to validate and tune their products for new business models.

BonFIRE has previously funded
innovative Cloud and Internet of Service experiments through two Open
Calls. Each call had a particular focus and successful applicants became
members of the BonFIRE consortium. For more information about these Open Calls, see the 1st Open Call Resultsand the 2nd Open Call Results.

To find out more about past and current experiment in BonFIRE see our experiments page!

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European